The city’s Law Department filed a notice of appeal Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan and Michael A. Cardozo, head of the city Law Department made a statement.

He says:

“We have moved ahead with our formal filings. The mayor, the police commissioner and the city vowed to press forward immediately with an appeal – and we have done so. The safety of all New Yorkers is at stake.”

Really? Lawyers now have about three months to file the formal brief.

Huffington Post reports:

Officers have made about 5 million stops in the past decade under the program, mostly of black and Hispanic men. About half are frisked. Only about 10 percent end in arrest and a weapon is recovered a fraction of the time.

A class-action lawsuit argued the department was wrongly targeting minorities and that officers were pressured to make stops by their superiors.